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Acevil on 18 October 2016
Chazore said:
Acevil said:

Can you provide source for the PC gaming is falling, I do love that statement. 

I'm not taking him seriously. I don't think asking him for a mountain of evidence to suggest him being right is going to magically appear. I'm expecting some dated articles and sites like Cinemablend as backup at best.

Still can't believe on this site, that a few can slag off PC gaming, but you can't slag off the other brands of consoles, figures. 

It is my favorite statement, and yes people get a lot of slagging of PC. I am not even a big PC guy as much as I am Sony or Nintendo, but boy do I like random statements. 



 

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Chazore on 18 October 2016
Acevil said:

It is my favorite statement, and yes people get a lot of slagging of PC. I am not even a big PC guy as much as I am Sony or Nintendo, but boy do I like random statements. 

I also noticed that he called PC gamers "repulsive". Rather than coming back with actual evidence and research, he just went straight for the throat. 

 

I don't even. 

 

I have mates on this site and who I work with that play on consoles (and some on PC too) and I don't find them repulsive in any form or way. 



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Nuvendil on 18 October 2016

Well Rockstar, when you treat an audience with sheer giggling contempt, they tend to not buy your products. You want good PC sales? Take lessons from Bethesda, CD Projekt Red, and other companies who show their PC audience some respect.

Oh, and real classy using an additional content graph OP.



Nuvendil on 18 October 2016
CosmicSex said:
Radek said:

Are you freaking serious? PC gaming failing? Is that why 99% of multiplats come out on PC and on the same date as console? Why Steam is bigger than ever and Microsoft releases all their exclusives on Windows 10?

You can't be serious, just no way you can.

With mid range graphic card GTX 1060 3 gb or RX 470 4GB costing 200$ and being twice as powerful as PS4. Want cheaper? Newly released GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti are both more powerful than Xbox One and even PS4, and cost 109$ and 139$ respectively, I really wouldn't call PC gaming expensive.

Its okay.  I know this is hard t. believe but its really not attractive to alot of people to game on PC.  maybe is phycological, but its true.  i spent about $900 building a PC about 2 years ago, but playing them in my computer chair infront of my small monitor by myself is really not what I enjoy.  I also had a bad 8320 chip that I had to replace after about 5 months.  I don't think most people are willing to go through the trouble of replacing their own individual parts or the process of even identifying what the issue is.  Also, and this is the worst part ---- when games just don't work and you have to go through this whole process of trying to research what the hell is wrong.  Most people don't have time for that. 

I have a PC.  I like to program and I like to make music.  That is what I use my rig for and it is a very decent one at that.  But for gaming, I just like to play with friends in the living room on the Bigscreen TV.  

Big PC guys try to make it seem like there is something wrong with people or that other people are inferior for not wanting to jump through the hoops they do to game on PC.  I think insulting people is part of being a PC gamer, for some, because they are so good at calling other people peseants and dirty.   I just find that attitude repulsive mostly. And R* finds them to be unworthy of immediate investment.  Development cost money and they want to follow the money. PC gaming is quicly becoming a sport about who can be the most pretentious, but that is not what gaming is about.

Dude your statement is so objectively,  demonstrably, incontravertibly wrong that...I don't even.  PC gaming is successful and there's plenty of money to be made for developers who don't treat PC gamers like second class people.  Like making them wait ridiculously long for games, releasing broken ports, locking framerates, including invasive DRM, and otherwise screwing over paying customers for no reason other than contempt and/or raw ignorance and stupidity.  Companies like Bethesda, CD Projekt Red, Blizzard, etc habe found success.  How?  Byt treating their customers on PC with the same respect as console and embracing the strengths of the PC platform.    



NobleTeam360 on 18 October 2016

I'm not really surprised. Consoles is where the money is at for Rockstar, GTA V proves that.



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Goodnightmoon on 18 October 2016
NobleTeam360 said:
I'm not really surprised. Consoles is where the money is at for Rockstar, GTA V proves that.

GTAV proves shit, 5.6milion sold for a late release is a ton of money, that's more than GTAV on XBO, and that was released a year before.



NobleTeam360 on 18 October 2016
Goodnightmoon said:
NobleTeam360 said:
I'm not really surprised. Consoles is where the money is at for Rockstar, GTA V proves that.

GTAV proves shit, 5.6milion sold for a late release is a ton of money, that's more than GTAV on XBO, and that was released a year before.

Tbf, GTA V came out on 360 a good amount of time before Xbox One,  and sold over 16 million alone on 360 (21 million on PS3) so again, consoles is where the money is at for GTA/Rockstar.



Goodnightmoon on 18 October 2016
NobleTeam360 said:
Goodnightmoon said:

GTAV proves shit, 5.6milion sold for a late release is a ton of money, that's more than GTAV on XBO, and that was released a year before.

Tbf, GTA V came out on 360 a good amount of time before Xbox One,  and sold over 16 million alone on 360 (21 million on PS3) so again, consoles is where the money is at for GTA/Rockstar.

That proves nothing, release the game on PC a year before the console and we'll see how much money is there, 19 months and 4 systems later the sales have been spoiled and they are still bigger than one of the consoles.



NobleTeam360 on 18 October 2016
Goodnightmoon said:
NobleTeam360 said:

Tbf, GTA V came out on 360 a good amount of time before Xbox One,  and sold over 16 million alone on 360 (21 million on PS3) so again, consoles is where the money is at for GTA/Rockstar.

That proves nothing, release the game on PC a year before the console and we'll see how much money is there, 19 months and 4 systems later the sales have been spoiled and they are still bigger than one of the consoles.

Guess we'll have to wait for GTA VI to see, assuming Rockstar will even bother with a PC version that is. 



Goodnightmoon on 18 October 2016
NobleTeam360 said:
Goodnightmoon said:

That proves nothing, release the game on PC a year before the console and we'll see how much money is there, 19 months and 4 systems later the sales have been spoiled and they are still bigger than one of the consoles.

Guess we'll have to wait for GTA VI to see, assuming Rockstar will even bother with a PC version that is. 

If they release that game simultaneusly on PC and console that would be a good way to measure. And yeah, it would be stupid to ignore 5-6m minimun of buyers, GTAVI should come to PC.